Detective in March, Trimble cases looking at Metro Council race

Retired Metro Police Detective Bill Pridemore, who helped crack some of the most notorious murder cases in recent Nashville history, has taken an important step toward running for a Metro Council seat this year.

Pridemore was one of the cold-case investigators who solved the Janet March and Marcia Trimble cases. He and fellow detectives helped bring Perry March to justice in 2006 for the 1996 murder of his wife, Janet, and gathered evidence that helped convict Jerome Barrett in 2009 for the murder of 9-year-old Marcia Trimble in 1975.

Now retired, Pridemore has appointed a treasurer for a campaign for the council’s District 9 seat from the Madison/Neely’s Bend area. No one else has done that yet (Shane Matthews did, but then he moved out of the county), but the qualifying deadline is still more than four months away.

“He looks right now like he’s the person who will probably get my support,” said the incumbent councilman, Jim Forkum, who is term-limited.